[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ipc: harden message receive function

[Anatoly Burakov]

Currently, IPC does not check received messages for invalid data
and passes them to user code unchanged. This may result in buffer
overruns on reading message data. Fix this by checking the message
length and fd number on receive, and discard any messages that
are not valid.

Fixes: bacaa2754017 ("eal: add channel for multi-process communication")
Cc: sta...@dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.bura...@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c 
b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
index b46d644b3..d4adabc70 100644
--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/eal_common_proc.c
@@ -285,7 +285,15 @@ read_msg(struct mp_msg_internal *m, struct sockaddr_un *s)
                        break;
                }
        }
-
+       /* sanity-check the response */
+       if (m->msg.num_fds < 0 || m->msg.num_fds > RTE_MP_MAX_FD_NUM) {
+               RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "invalid number of fd's received\n");
+               return -1;
+       }
+       if (m->msg.len_param < 0 || m->msg.len_param > RTE_MP_MAX_PARAM_LEN) {
+               RTE_LOG(ERR, EAL, "invalid received data length\n");
+               return -1;
+       }
        return 0;
 }
 
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